L7 log data types

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Calico Enterprise sends the following data to Elasticsearch.

The following table details the key/value pairs in the JSON blob, including their Elasticsearch datatype.

Name	Datatype	Description
host	keyword	Name of the node that collected the L7 log entry.
start_time	date	Start time of log collection in UNIX timestamp format.
end_time	date	End time of log collection in UNIX timestamp format.
bytes_in	long	Number of incoming bytes since the last export.
bytes_out	long	Number of outgoing bytes since the last export.
duration_mean	long	Mean duration time of all the requests that match this combination of L7 data in nanoseconds.
duration_max	long	Max duration time of all the requests that match this combination of L7 data in nanoseconds.
count	long	Number of requests that match this combination of L7 data.
src_name_aggr	keyword	Contains one of the following values: - Aggregated name of the source pod. - pvt: endpoint is not a pod. Its IP address belongs to a private subnet. - pub: endpoint is not a pod. Its IP address does not belong to a private subnet. It is probably an endpoint on the public internet.
src_namespace	keyword	Namespace of the source endpoint.
src_type	keyword	Source endpoint type. Possible values: - wep: A workload endpoint, a pod in Kubernetes. - ns: A Networkset. If multiple Networksets match, then the one with the longest prefix match is chosen. - net: A Network. The IP address did not fall into a known endpoint type.
dest_name_aggr	keyword	Contains one of the following values: - Aggregated name of the destination pod. - pvt: endpoint is not a pod. Its IP address belongs to a private subnet. - pub: endpoint is not a pod. Its IP address does not belong to a private subnet. It is probably an endpoint on the public internet.
dest_namespace	keyword	Namespace of the destination endpoint.
dest_type	keyword	Destination endpoint type. Possible values: - wep: A workload endpoint, a pod in Kubernetes. - ns: A Networkset. If multiple Networksets match, then the one with the longest prefix match is chosen. - net: A Network. The IP address did not fall into a known endpoint type.
dest_service_name	keyword	Name of the destination service. This may be empty if the request was not made against a service.
dest_service_namespace	keyword	Namespace of the destination service. This may be empty if the request was not made against a service.
dest_service_port	long	Destination service port.
url	keyword	URL that the request was made against.
response_code	keyword	Response code returned by the request.
method	keyword	HTTP method for the request.
user_agent	keyword	User agent of the request.
type	keyword	Type of request made. Possible values include tcp, tls, and html/<version>.